2023 UNCITRAL South Asia Conference

UNCITRAL RCAP held the 2023 UNCITRAL South Asia Conference, a flagship event co-hosted with the Ministry of External Affairs, Republic of India and the UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee of India on 14 - 16 September in New Delhi. Global and regional legal and judicial experts shared insights on commercial law topics including the digital economy, MSMEs and access to credit, insolvency, investor-state dispute settlement reform, international commercial arbitration and mediation, and more. Special highlights included a high-level inaugural and roundtable sessions focusing on regional perspectives on UNCITRAL. 

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Programme
 

Inaugural Session

Inaugural speeches

• Ms. Anna Joubin-Bret, Secretary of UNCITRAL
• Mr. R. Venkataramani, Attorney General for India
• Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs of India
• Hon'ble Dr. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India
• Mr. Fali S. Nariman, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Chair of UNCCI

Day 1

Session 2: MSMEs and Access to Credit

• Mr. Jae Sung Lee, Senior Legal Officer, UNCITRAL
• Mr. Jinchang Lai, Principal Operations Officer, Financial Institutions Group Asia Pacific, International Finance Cooperation (IFC), World Bank Group

Session 6: Commercial Mediation

• Ms. Tracy Choi, Legal Expert, UNCITRAL RCAP
• Ms. Ruwanadini Kuruppu, Assistant Secretary (Legal), Ministry of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms, Sri Lanka

Day 2

Session 7: Commercial Arbitration

• Ms. Athita Komindr, Head of UNCITRAL RCAP

Session on CLOUT

• Mr. Arjun Krishnan, Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India and UNCITRALCLOUT National Correspondent & Mr. Sriharsha Peechara; Advocate, Supreme Court of India and UNCITRAL-CLOUT National Correspondent

Valedictory speech

• Ms. Athita Komindr, Head of UNCITRAL RCAP